Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-19
CONE TO TEXAS.

The unprecedented droutAs and the
suGerings snd loss caused BY fires in the
northwest have denora!ized the people of
that district and they ere preparing for &
stampede to more favored sections. There
are many who cannot leave, not having
the means upon which to travel and be-
yin life in new country. There are q
great number Of good citizens, how ever,
who have disposed OF whatever property
they owned, snd who will seek q more
fruitful clime. To such as are DESTROYS
Of finding homes where peace and
plenty IS sure TO reward the industrious,
Northwest Texas is 81 inviting field.
Lands are cheap end ob.ainable on easy
terms; tae soil is fertile and the climate
IS most sslubTiOus. We have had +
drouthy spell last summer il some sec
lions, bat it did not last long,
and covered but small area
relatively. l. was nothing like the
drouth which visited Wisconsin, Indiana
and other northern states aud its effects
/ are scarcely felt at present. BOunteou5
rains have fallen and the later crops will
make up in abundance what was lost in
the earlier season, and il one year from
date Texas shsll have recovered and be
again on the read to prosperity. Not so
with The states just named. The drouth
has not only burned up 81 verdure, fam
ished live stock from thirst and laid the
land desol4te, but the fields and forests,
fencing, garnered cereals and buildings
have been destroyed and are still being
destroyed by devouri9g flames, until the
country for hundreds of miles is one
blackened desert where animal life cannot
exist. Relief cannot come as 1t came to
Texas. Generous rains may fall in tor,
rents to cool the psrched earth and pre-
vent further devastation by the fiery fenG,
but the season is far spent and the earth
will not have time to yield an increase
before the surly blasts of chill December
shall be heard, heralding the SHOWS and
storms of q long and absolutely unprc-
ductive winter The prospect for these
homeless people is indeed gloomy. How
they will survive the winter, without the
aid of outside charity is difficult to de-
termine. Those people in the northwest
ern portion of Wisconsin who depend on
tae winter as their harvest N the lumber
regions, Will have no one to Cffer them
employment for the forests have also fall
en- before the consuming flames. The
kilograms sent cut from the stricken dis
tIicts draw dark aad melancholy pic.
ture OF condition Of sfAirs truly, and re
liable newspapers arriving since have
corfrmed the report. There is Nd doub.
but whist the rumored exodus is well
founded, and II the advantages Of Texas
we've shown these people, thousands o.
home seekers would doubtless flock hero
this winter. 1t should be remembered
that while Texas suffered from the drCutt
in sections, the suffering has rGt beer
general. There are thousardSof souar,
, miles in this state Wnere rain il
abundsrce has fallen, and wher,
crops Of all kinds have beer
! made. Even in the northwest, wher
there ere nHnberless acres of excellen
lands waiting the advent of the agricul
turist, rains hsve fallen at interval
throughout the entire country and q
frequent intervals during the season. Gu
railroads should see tnat these eop,e ar
fully informed of the attractions and re
sources of Texas, and by low rates, in
e duce as many as possible to take up thei
I mes with Us. There is plenty of roor
in Texas for those who come here inten
upon assisting in the development OF Ii
country.